EDA

Dassault Systèmes and IC Manage have each developed "big data" mining software tools to track the progress of chip-design projects

For DAC 2015, Invionics set itself the challenge of developing a custom tool in 48 hours based on votes for ideas provided by visitors to the show.

Verification of SoCs can't be done by adapting IP-level strategies - it'll take a much greater interaction with software, and the use of a shared language

Foundry strikes two more Internet of Things subsystem deals for its 55nm ULP process based on Cadence Tensilica and Imagination MIPS/PowerVR cores.

Silicon Cloud is preparing to expand access to its network-based design environment beyond the universities using it today to commercial users

Electronics design needs to cope with a combination of major brands and tiny start-ups looking to exploit its skills even where their resources are thin.

Following the acquisition of Jasper Design Automation last year, Cadence Design Systems is widening the target base of applications for formal verification, covering tasks from bug hunting through accelerated simulation to 'superlinting'.

Silicon Impulse program adds partners to ease industrialisation of ultra-low power IC designs based on FD-SOI processes

Altera is using a combination of Intel's 14nm process technology and multidie packaging to boost the logic-cell count for its FPGAs, together with a superpipelining strategy to help balance area and clock speed.

Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) has launched a tool intended to help fabless chipmakers squeeze more out of existing processes rather than accept the risk and expense of moving to more advanced, finFET-based processes.